Case Study: Hallam Medical achieves a fully redundant, high-performance all-flash SAN in one day and zero downtime with StarWind Software

Hallam Medical Ltd builds a new infrastructure in only one day and transfers all the workloads with no downtime

Hallam Medical, a fast‑growing UK primary care recruitment specialist founded in 2007, supports the nation’s largest bank of advanced and community nursing staff. As their business expanded, their Microsoft Hyper‑V cluster running on an HP Fibre Channel SAN began to struggle—read latency spiked and the existing SAN could no longer meet performance needs, so they required an affordable, reliable software‑defined storage solution.

Hallam deployed StarWind VSAN and, using their chosen hardware, built a fully redundant, replicating all‑flash SAN on the live production system in a single day with zero downtime. Workloads were migrated after brief testing with no user impact; performance improved markedly, support proved strong, and the company now plans to use StarWind for asynchronous DR replication and as the storage backbone for backups.

Hallam Medical

Patrick Louis-Jean

IT Manager